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Book Club
OfflineHas anyone hosted a book club on site? Any tips/tricks/ideas about how you leveraged having it on their intranet site would be appreciated. A virtual book club can be easily accomplished through Zoom/Slack/email but I was hoping to use a book club to help drive traffic to our site. Thanks!
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Before COVID, the discussions were in person for those at headquarters while remote staff beamed in on video conference. But we also had an asynchronous online discussion that would happen on Igloo. The online discussion was a way to get juices flowing before the actual discussion started, and allow those who couldn't attend the in-person discussion to weigh in.During COVID, the in-person discussions are now online, but that's the only difference.
We use the Food for Thought page to explain the parameters of the channel, provide instructions to volunteer facilitators, and keep the calendar of events updated. If you'd like to see it some time, let me know. Happy to set up a screen share!
We have a Team Member Network that is a book club. They have their own space on our intranet, and primarily use the Forum for book conversations. Each week a facilitator posts thoughts and pointed questions, and the readers can reply. The forum helps to keep the conversation ongoing for those who might not be at the same pace or have to pop in and out due to workload.
We have the "join" function turned on so we have a list of members and have weekly subscriptions turned on for that group as that extra reminder to check back to the forums. They also use polls to select new books, and a blog feed to keep the group updated on updates, new books, etc. It's very facilitated vs. free form. They also have a live Zoom wrap-up call for each book.